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Saturday, 8 June 2013

There’s lots going on nowadays with various ways to remember your
password. We reported yesterday on Amazon’s foray into the world of
login plugins, giving other websites and apps the ability to let their users to log in with their Amazon accounts.
But that type of logging in seems like child’s play after the recent
announcement from Motorola’s leader of special projects, Regina Dugan.
Formerly the head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA), a division of the United States Department of Defense, she
boasted that at her previous gig, she “got to do a lot of epic shit.”
According to AllThingsD, she wants to talk about bringing that to the
masses, in the form of wearable computers. But she’s not talking about
gadgets like Google Glass. She’s thinking more along the lines of
electronic tattoos and pills. Here’s how it works: The tattoo would
be embedded on a person and could be used to authenticate a user on a
computer or phone. Motorola is partnering with a company called M10,
which is responsible for the technology. Not a fan of body art? How
about swallowing a pill? The other innovation unveiled is a pill that a
user can swallow, which then switches on, powered by the person’s
stomach acid. The pill then transmits an 18-bit signal, essentially
making the person a walking password. Don’t expect to see any of
this entering mass production any time soon. It’s all in the very early
stages. And Dugan assures that these would be optional methods of
logging in; they won’t make these required methods of logging in.